Keanu Reeves

Few moviegoers would have guessed from his laconic and occasionally blissed-out performances in films like "River's Edge" (1986) and "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" (1989) that in less than a dec...
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May 21, 2013

Movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has made a big splurge at the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday (21May13), picking up the U.S. rights to Keanu Reeves and Reese Witherspoon's new sci-fi romance Passengers. Developed by Reeves and producing partner Stephen Hamel, the film will be the feature directing debut of Game of Thrones director Brian Kirk.

A top Chinese movie executive involved in Keanu Reeves' directorial debut has fallen victim to thieves after his luggage was stolen from a French hotel during the Cannes Film Festival. Zhang Qiang, vice president of the China Film Group, was forced to pull out of a press conference with The Matrix actor for the film Man of Tai Chi on Thursday (16May13) after discovering that his suite at the Pierre & Vacances Residence Cannes Beach had been ransacked and his bags taken.
And he was further enraged by the alleged attitude of hotel staff, who reportedly told Qiang he'd have to file a police report by himself, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Venting about the incident on Chinese social networking site Weibo.com, he wrote, "Security in France is so bad, and the (people) are so arrogant".
The burglary was the latest drama to hit the prestigious annual gala - $1 million (£645,000)-worth of Chopard jewels were stolen from an employee's hotel room last week (end17May13), while a man was arrested on Friday (17May13) after causing a security scare by allegedly firing a gun filled with blanks and brandishing a fake grenade during a waterfront TV interview with Christoph Waltz.

Kathryn Bigelow, eat your heart out.
Alcon Entertainment is proceeding full steam ahead with their remake of 1991's Point Break, the early Bigelow actioner about an FBI agent undercover with a group of surfers-turned-bank robbers. The production company has just hired director Ericson Core to reimagine the film for the 21st century. His only notable previous directing effort was the 2006 Mark Wahlberg football film, Invincible. Mostly, Core has made his career as the cinematographer for action-heavy films like Payback, Daredevil, and The Fast and the Furious, which some critics have charged as a rip-off of Point Break, with illegal street car racing in place of surfing.
Casting hasn't yet been announced, but the original Point Break starred Keanu Reeves, Gary Busey, and Patrick Swayze, earned back nearly quadruple its $24 million budget at the box office, and has become a major cult hit on VHS, DVD, and Blu-ray.
No surprise then that a lot of Point Break fans are grumbling about the idea of a remake, and are taking their concerns to Twitter. Simon Pegg, for one, tweeted, "I'm hearing word of a Point Break remake. When I finish writing this tweet, I will sigh heavily, close my eyes and shake my head...The beauty of Point Break was that Katherine Bigelow [sic] took a ludicrous idea, cast Reeves/Swayze/Busey and made a classic. Good luck remake."
To use Keanu's preferred form of speech, what do you think of a Point Break remake: Whoa or No?
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It may not be obvious, but Korean film is more popular than ever.
Spike Lee and Josh Brolin are currently shooting a remake of Park Chan-wook's Oldboy. Charlize Theron is getting in on the action with her own remake, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance. Even Sandra Bullock and and Keanu Reeves tapped the Asian country for inspiration when they remade Il Mare into The Lake House.
While world politics may warp our perception, some of the best dramas of the year continue to be imported from Korea. The latest comes from writer/director Park Hoon Jeong (screenwriter behind the incredible I Saw the Devil), whose latest film New World arrives to the U.S. after doing gangbusters in South Korea.
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Don't believe it? Check out the exclusive poster for the movie below. Even the one-sheets have atmosphere!
New World continues to explore a common theme in Korean film, the ripple effect of acts of crime, all from the perspective of recognizable human characters. Here's what's in store:
The head of the Goldmoon crime syndicate is dead, leaving his top two lieutenants. Seizing the opportunity, the police launch an operation called "New World," with the perfect weapon. The boss' right hand man, Ja-sung (LEE Jung-jae, The Theives), has been a deep-cover operative for 8 years, closely watched by handler Police chief Kang (CHOI Min-sik, Oldboy). With a baby on the way, and living in mortal fear of being exposed as a mole, Ja-sung is torn between his duty and honor as a cop, and the fiercely loyal gang members who will follow him to hell and back.
Using inside information from Ja-sung to damage the relationship between the two feuding contenders, suspicions grow that a traitor lives in their ranks. Ruthless Jung (HWANG Jun-min, Blades of Blood) escalates the game by hiring hackers to search the police database. As Operation New World closes in, and with the stakes climbing higher and a gangland bloodbath guaranteed among those that remain, Ja-sung makes a final, shocking decision no one could have predicted.
New World lands stateside March 22. Check out the other two posters in the triptych at Film School Rejects and Twitch.
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So, you're watching a romantic movie. Does this movie have a boat? Is one of the characters terminally ill? Do you know from Scene 1 that you'll be crying by the end of the movie? Does everything work out in favor of romance in a fashion so unrealistic, you wonder if there's something you missed? Do you feel emotionally manipulated at the end?
Then you might be watching a Nicholas Sparks movie.
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Now, it's a guilty pleasure we're all guilty of, but it's not hard to see the signs. When you sit down for a Nicholas Sparks movie, you know what's coming. But how well do you know? We've laid out a few movie details for you to test your Sparksian knowledge. So without further ado:
Is this a Nicholas Sparks movie?
1.The Runaway and the Widower?
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Stars: Julianne Hough, Josh Duhamel
Filming Locations: North Carolina
Couple Stats: Katie is a "mysterious stranger" living a transient life, Alex is a widower and he's super great.
Over-involved parents: Not so much, but the guy's got kids.
The Story: She's anti-attachment or staying in one place because she's running from a man in her past, Alex tries to be her shelter.
Potential for tear-jerking: It comes out Friday, but in the meantime just know it involves deceased wives, letters, and potentially fire.
Is this a Nicholas Sparks movie?
Click to find out if you got it right!
Answer: Yep! Safe Haven is from the mind of Mr. Sparks.
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2. Love in Cape Cod?
Stars: Kevin Costner, Robin Wright Penn, and Paul Newman
Filming locations: Maine, Chicago, and Wilmington, North Carolina
Couple Stats: Theresa is a former reporter, Garret is a widower with a boat named Happenstance.
Over-involved parents: Yep (but it's Paul Newman, so how bad could it be?)
The Story: She finds messages in a bottle, he wrote them to his dead wife, he and Theresa fall in love.
Turning Point: Garret finds the letters Theresa has been hiding and angrily confronts her.
Tear-jerking outcome: Garret's dad tells Theresa, a year after their fight, that Garret died at sea... while trying to save someone... and that he wrote his dead wife a new letter... and it says he loved Theresa.
Is this a Nicholas Sparks movie?
Are you two-for-two?
Answer: Yes! Message in a Bottle was written by Sparks.
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3. Love, interrupted?
Stars: Channing Tatum, Rachel McAdams
Filming Locations: Chicago
Couple Stats: Artist Paige and Recording studio owner Leo Collins are married, but she loses her memory after a car accident.
Over-involved parents: Yep (and they want amnesiac Paige to dump Leo for her rich high school boyfriend).
The Story: Leo works tirelessly to get his ansesia-stricken wife to remember him while her parents use it as an opportunity to put her back on her path to boring lawyerhood.
Turning Point: After making progress to win Paige back, Leo punches her ex boyfriend and then officially divorces her.
Tear-jerking outcome: They end up together, but it's not the same, because Paige never regains the memory of her past life with Leo.
Is this a Nicholas Sparks movie?
Did Rachel McAdams really do two Sparks flicks?
Answer: Nope! The Vow is based on a true story, not a Sparks book.
4. One month only?
Stars: Charlize Theron, Keanu Reeves
Filming Locations: San Francisco
Couple Stats: Sara is a mysterious free spirit, Nelson is a guy who just lost his job and his girlfriend so he's got lots of free time.
Over-involved parents: Nope, but Keanu's Nelson does befriend a fatherless kid named Abner.
The Story: Two young, wacky San Fransisco lovers spend one Sweet November together.
Turning point: Nelson spends most of November in Sara's apartment, falling in love with her, but when he decides he's going to marry her, he finds out she has terminal cancer.
Tear-jerking outcome: Sara leaves Nelson alone so she can go die in peace with her family, and Keanu is left to cry alone in the park where they went on their first date.
Is this a Nicholas Sparks movie?
Could it be?
Answer: Nope! But man, does Sweet November sound like one.
5. Love letters, not bound by time or space?
Stars: Sandra Bullock, Keanu Reeves
Filming locations: Chicago, other parts of Illinois
Couple Stats: Kate is a doctor living in 2006 who leaves a letter in her the mailbox of the house she's leaving, Alex is an architect living in 2004 who somehow gets that letter in 2004 because time travel, guys.
The Story: Their letters travel through time. Because magical lake house. And time travel. And love. Stop asking questions, that will just ruin it. Gosh.
Turning Point: Kate learns that Alex stood her up for their time travel-proof date, because he's the guy she saw get hit by a car and he's now dead.
Tear-jerking outcome: She writes him a last-minute time travelin' letter and tells him to come to the lake house instead, which means he's undead now and they get to kiss and live at the lake.
Is this a Nicholas Sparks movie?
Perhaps Keanu did take a trip with Sparks after all...
Answer: Nope. And thank goodness Sparks isn't responsible for The Lake House, or we'd think he's losing his touch. Or whatever he has.
6. The Ballad of Liam and Miley?
Stars: Miley Cyrus, Liam Hemsworth, Greg Kinnear, Kelly Preston
Filming locations: Savannah, Georgia
Couple stats: Ronnie is a rebellious young piano prodigy who refuses to go to Julliard and is sent to learn some manners by living with her estranged father, Will is a perfect popular guy who volunteers and he doesn't care about Ronnie's arrest (Too much information too fast? Sorry.).
The Story: Ronnie's a problem child and her mother sends her away from New York to get wholesome-ized with her father in Georgia, but she's an immediate out-case there. Somehow, the popular guy takes an interest in her...
Turning Point: Will lets Ronnie's cancer-stricken father be blamed for burning down the church when he knows it was his friend.
Tear-jerking outcome: Ronnie finishes writing her dad's composition as he dies, then plays it for the town, including Will who really likes it and who tells her he's going to Columbia for college so he can be with her. But he only let a crime be blamed on your sick dad, you should totally get back together with him, Miley.
Is this a Nicholas Sparks movie?
Answer: Yep. The Last Song is something only Nicholas Sparks could give us.
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Clint Eastwood's popular 1971 cop movie and Keanu Reeves' 1999 sci-fi blockbuster have been selected for the honour, along with Audrey Hepburn's turn in the classic adaptation of Truman Capote's novella.
The annual list of 25 movies, which are selected for their "important cultural, artistic and historic achievements in filmmaking," also includes Madonna's 1992 baseball film A League Of Their Own, 1957's 3:10 To Yuma, A Christmas Story from 1983, and 1991's Slacker.
Librarian of Congress James H. Billington says, "These films are not selected as the 'best' American films of all time, but rather as works of enduring importance to American culture. They reflect who we are as a people and as a nation."
The registry now includes 600 films which will be preserved for future generations.

Now that the final Twilight movie is about to open its coffin and pounce into theaters, everyone is going to be all abuzz one more time with vampire mania. But, as we all know, every vampire — and his or her fanbase — is different. It's no longer about Team Edward or Team Jacob, there is a blood-sucker to suit every personality type. Let's see what these different vamps say about the people that love them.
Edward Cullen: The Twilight lover has launched four movies, one love triangle, and a billion ear-piercing screams.
What It Says About You: You have waited overnight in line for tickets to a concert and probably to attend one of these movies. You have lost all critical faculties and blindly praise the things you love, even when they disappoint you. You think that Kristen Stewart is the devil. You have at least one set of those magic markers that smell like different fruit.
Barnabas Collins: The Dark Shadows dandy protagonist has had many incarnations.
What It Says About You: If you're already in love with the Johnny Depp character from the new movie, then you're the type of person who jumps on the newest trend before it's even broken so you can tell people, "I saw Dark Shadows during its opening weekend while you were still in line for The Avengers." If you're still in love with the old character played on the '70s soap opera, then you're the type of person who never lets go of a pop cultural fixation, no matter how many Pet Rocks, Beanie Babies, or Pokemon pass you by. If you're in love with him from the 1991 revival, then you are me and you are currently writing this article.
Eric Northman: This True Blood baddy is a killer with a heart of gold... and everything Sookie desires.
What It Says About You: You're in your late 20s and possibly 30s and you are probably a woman with a working set of eyes and a rather strong libido. You own at least one pair of "fancy panties." You were always a Backstreet Boys fan and didn't care much for *NSYNC. You still have a crush on John Stamos from Full House.
Stefan Salvatore: The nice brother on The Vampire Diaries is always fighting his hotter brother.
What It Says About You: You like to cuddle. You are in your early 20s and only watch CW shows on your laptop. You are definitely a woman because all the gays like Ian Somerhalder better. You watched Hart of Dixie and actually liked it. Jerk.
Bram Stoker's Dracula: The original literary character is still one of the deadliest.
What It Says About You: You work in a creative field and often say at parties, "I don't own a television," all superior-like, but you still watch America's Next Top Model for free on your laptop. You have a crush on Keanu Reeves and subscribe to more than one Tumblr that is mostly just animated .gifs. You are wary of the Kindle.
Santánico Pandemónium: Salma Hayek made a splash in From Dusk Till Dawn with her sex dance.
What It Says About You: You are a man.
Blade: This Marvel vampire hunter-turned-action picture star is also a vamp himself.
What It Says About You: You don't really love vampires, you only half love vampires. There is something about your basic nature that you are denying. It is probably your love for vampires, but it might be something more. You don't pay your taxes.
Lestat: Whether it's the character from Anne Rice's books or Tom Cruise from Interview with a Vampire, he's always added some rock 'n' roll to the proceedings.
What It Says About You: You may or may not have exited a goth phase that started sometime in high school. You know who Poppy Z. Brite is and have very definite opinions about her. You own something other than underwear that is made of lace. Your hair is not its natural color. You have made out in a graveyard.
Angel: Buffy's forbidden lover was a vampire cursed with a soul. He was also good enough to graduate to his own show.
What It Says About You: You own at least one The Smiths CD. Your boyfriend (or girlfriend) is prone to fits of depression and you love him even more for it. Every time you have a romp in the hay, you feel like you lose a little bit of yourself. Your mother hates your boyfriend.
The Count: Sesame Street's purple-skinned demon had more of a thirst for numbers than blood.
What It Says About You: You are probably a child and not old enough to read this. Go get your mother and tell her that she shouldn't leave you alone with the computer.
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Many have been quick to judge Keanu Reeves' 3D samurai epic 47 Ronin, following the blockbuster's release date shuffle from Nov. 2012 to Feb. 2013, and then again to Dec. 2013. Rumors the film was in trouble were only made foggier by announced reshoots that took place earlier this year. But so far, zero footage from the feature debut from commercial director Carl Rinsch has been released, providing little insight into the look and feel of the finished product.
A year out from 47 Ronin's release means we may not see trailer for a some time, but stunt coordinator Gary Powell tells Hollywood.com that Rinsch's continued work on the film is all happening to strengthen the story and tone. "It was a quick couple of weeks reshoot, story points and all that," says Powell. "It will make the film better. I have not seen it, but all the visual effects people [say] there are a hell of a lot of visual effects. But it looks really nice."
Powell, whose recent credits as a stunt coordinator include The Bourne Ultimatum, Unstoppable, and the upcoming Bond film Skyfall, was also able to shed light on what to expect on the action side of the film. "[There is] a lot of fighting. We have a pretty good horse chase at the start of it, with this mystical creature. Keanu did a lot of action on that."
Powell describes 47 Ronin as a tough tonal balancing act between realism and a fantastical edge that lends itself to a big blockbuster. He notes that the reshoots were brought on to help solidify the two sides of the story, but that Rinsch was dedicated to reality from the very beginning. "The fights are more believable than, say, the ones that are around a lot these days," says Powell. "Where you slice someone in the face and spin around six times before you hit the floor. Carl can't stand that stuff, basically."
But 47 Ronin doesn't skimp on the imaginative either. Powell notes that he and Rinsch threw "a few sweeteners in there for the kids," when it came to the action sequences. The story of the 47 samurai who embark on a journey to avenge their master takes a few nods from Japanese anime. "It definitely has that tone to it. There is a huge eight-foot samurai in it, and that sort of thing. We play with the fantasy side of it quite a bit, but we want to keep it believable."
47 Ronin stars Keanu Reeves, Hiroyuki Sanada, Kou Shibasaki, and Tadanobu Asano and arrives in theaters Dec. 25, 2013.
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In a recent interview with GQ actor Keanu Reeves divulged some details about the long awaited third installment of the totally tubular Bill &amp; Ted saga. And the news from the 47-year-old is, in a word, excellent.
"We have a nice story," the star tells the magazine of the upcoming exploits of rockin' time travelers Theodore (Reeves) and Bill S. Preston, Esq. (Alex Winter). "One of the plot points is that these two people have been crushed by the responsibility of having to write the greatest song ever written and to change the world. And they haven't done it. So everybody is kind of like: 'Where is the song?' The guys have just drifted off into esoterica and lost their rock. And we go on this expedition, go into the future to find out if we wrote the song, and one future 'us' refuses to tell us, and another future 'us' blames us for their lives because we didn't write the song, so they're living this terrible life. In one version we're in jail; in another we're at some kind of highway motel and they hate us."
Okay, that sounds all kinds of awesome and kind of lessens the sting of a Rufus-less Bill &amp; Ted movie. Kind of.
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Played a WWII veteran who pretends to be married in "A Walk in the Clouds"

Starred as a politician's son who becomes a street hustler in Gus Van Sant's "My Own Private Idaho"

Played a street tough in the short film "The Prodigal"

Reprised role of Neo in "The Matrix Reloaded"

Starred in the sports comedy "The Replacements"

First starring role, "River's Edge" playing a burned out dope-smoking teen

Had featured role, alongside Ullman and Kevin Kline in the black comedy "I Love You to Death"

Last major TV acting appearance to date, in the "Two Lost Souls" segment of "The Tracey Ullman Show" (Fox)

At age 16, danced in a Coca-Cola commercial

Summary

Few moviegoers would have guessed from his laconic and occasionally blissed-out performances in films like "River's Edge" (1986) and "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" (1989) that in less than a decade, Keanu Reeves would be one of Hollywood's most popular and bankable leading men. He had to first endure a long, awkward period, during which he struggled to find his footing in big-budget features like "Bram Stoker's Dracula" (1992) and independent fare like "Little Buddha" (1993); in the eyes of most critics and pundits, he was ill-equipped for both. But his turn as a determined and resourceful police officer in 1994's "Speed" proved him to be a capable action hero, which he underscored by playing Neo, the reluctant Messiah figure in the science fiction blockbuster "The Matrix" (1999) and its two sequels, as well as "Constantine" (2003). Perhaps sensing that his acting abilities remained in the crosshairs of many pundits, he strove to maintain a presence in quieter dramas and the occasional comedy, which received mixed results.

Of Hawaiian and Chinese descent; abandoned his wife and family when Reeves was two; sentenced to 10 years in prison for cocaine and heroin possession in 1994; served time in a Hawaiian jail; paroled in 1996

Gave birth to Reeves' stillborn daughter in 2000, who was named Ava Archer Reeves; Killed in a car accident on April 2, 2001

Patricia Taylor

Mother

English

Education

Name

De La Salle College

Hedgerow Theatre

High School for the Performing Arts

Etobicoke School of the Arts

Jessie Ketchum Public School

Notes

Various sources list either September 2 or September 4 as his date of birth (one lists August 2); since the majority indicate September 2, that is the date this database is listing.

His first name, Keanu, means 'cool breeze over the mountains.'

Reeves has an abdominal scar which is the result of a motorcyle accident.

Reeves was diagnosed with dyslexia as a child.

The Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, began a class called "The Films of Keanu Reeves" as of January 1994.

He performs with his band Dogstar, formed in 1993 with Bret Domrose and actor Robert Mailhouse.

"He has only three possessions of any consequence. A bass guitar, so he can play with his folk-rock band, Dogstar, and two Norton motorcycles, British-made in the 1970s." - Michael Shnayerson on Keanu in Vanity Fair magazine, August 1995

"Listen, I'm an actor, not a movie star. The worry for me is that you never know where your next gig is coming from. To me the nature of the beast is that you finish working and then wonder if you'll ever work again. That feeling never goes away. Hopefully I'll be successful enough that people will be able to hire me. But I give my thanks for my life so far. It's been incredible. Do I want it to continue? Yeah, I really love it." - Reeves to the Chicago Sun-Times, March 28, 1999

"Playing live is fun. It is completely different to acting, but they are both imaginative, creative and emotional acts. Sometimes I think of playing full time, but it's a passing phase. Acting is home for me, that is where I live." - Reeves to the London Times, Jan. 11, 1998

"I've always considered that there's the role, and there's the actor. These two entities come together, and in the process I learn about the role, and the role learns about me. So you’re holding the mirror up to nature, but that nature is your own." - Reeves to Premiere magazine, February 2005

"He's so fuckin' hard on himself, that it's to the point of depression. It's beyond art or work for him. If he feels he's bad in a scene, he'll go home pissed off, wake up pissed off, come back to the set pissed off, and then he'll try to focus. As soon as his take is done, you can see his whole body rest." - Shia LaBeouf on Keanu quoted to Premiere magazine, February 2005

"I'm trying not to be alone so much," says Reeves. "And man, it's a struggle. I want to get married. I want to have kids. That's at the top of the mountain. I've got to climb the mountain first. I'll do it. Just give me some time." - Reeves to Parade magazine, June 2006

In the June 2006 issue of Parade magazine, Reeves talks about his late girlfriend Jennifer Syme, whom he met in 1998 and who later gave birth to their stillborn baby daughter. Reeves and Syme remained best friends until April 2001, when Syme died in a car crash.